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They Cried Wolf

Along with a stunned nation, Diego Constance gapes at the newscast. A frantic evacuation escalates as a virulent contagion dissolves
Midwesterners by the tens of thousands. It confirms the staggering betrayal he’s uncovered. His boss, the President of the United States,
is responsible. Masked by an engineered calamity, the President has maneuvered a panicked congress into granting him dictatorial powers.
A psychopath has slipped past the American electorate.

Despite legal constraints, Diego remains the Commander in Chief’s weapon of choice against national security threats. Killing however
makes for a lonely life and Diego longs for an end to his solitary existence. But first his scarred soul must once more descend into
a violent darkness.

A despot grips freedom’s throat. With each passing hour the stranglehold tightens. Whatever the cost, tyranny cannot stand. Diego steels
himself. The bloodlust swells. He will confront the most powerful, the most guarded man on earth. Diego’s cunning, hardened by a brutal
lifetime, guarantees nothing.

What no one knows, not even the President…the Executive Assassin is a werewolf.

Lauren Danielle Carson’s hours old Presidency has just crashed and burned. A classified report details what many have long conjectured.
During her first term, a unified Africa will surpass the United States as the world’s preeminent superpower. Her legacy will be the
President on whose watch America joined history’s also-rans.

Desperate to reverse a decades-long decline, committees, panels, experts, meetings, storm sessions fill her days and nights. Every effort
to forestall the inevitable reaches a dead end. Slowly, inexorably, options diminish. When one remains, she faces the horrific, the
unthinkable.

Fate has intertwined two mirrored lives. She is white. He is black. She leads a nation. He conquered a continent. Her story is the present,
his lies in the past. He begins as a brutal warlord and ends up beloved and cheered. She begins beloved and cheered and ends up a despised
outcast. She will destroy his achievements and in the act, destroy herself.

Millennia ago, Sorkens desperate to escape the Milky Way’s savagery, settled into our nondescript, out-of-the-way star group. Unaware of
Earth, a shockwave spreads across their planet when humanity ignites its first wormhole. Led by a brutal crime lord, vicious warfare erupts
among factions determined to control mankind’s gateway to the stars. All are oblivious to what an electro-magnetic beacon blaring across
the galaxy implies.

Panicked, the Sorken Council meets to re-authorize a long-forbidden technology. Through their own wormhole, they send a Warrior Priestess.
Before galactic wolves track the scent, she must destroy the device and everyone possessed of its knowledge.

No one associates the Vatican with assassins. That their allies dwell in Western China's Kunlun Mountains makes it an easier secret to keep.
Still, the tiny village of Yíncándí is not immune to the vagaries of fate. Little does a lost mountaineer imagine what will become of the
infant he leaves with the villagers. Nor can Trajan, an orphan of Christian missionaries, imagine the true nature of the Buddhist monks raising
him. Until the moment arrives when he must choose between Buddha and Christ.

Seraphim, Mujahedeen madmen of the Catholic world, have reignited their centuries-old war against the Church. The continued slaughter of Middle
East Christians has placed them on extinction's edge and the Seraphim blame the Pope's cowardice. Their Cardinals marked for assassination and
trapped by their own secrecy, the Vatican must place their hope Trajan will stand between them and a religious war foreshadowing the apocalypse.

But things will become far more complicated than anyone can imagine. As the battle lines harden between Muslim and Jew, Buddhist and Christian,
a woman appears astounding the world with miraculous abilities and declaring herself the successor to the prophets and the Servant of the One Lord.

The Track

A cold gust blew the rose off her tombstone. Blew them off the other two, the smaller ones. Laying in the snow, they seemed redder. Like blood. My hand came out its
glove to wipe my nose. Cold made it run. The kind of cold that blasted down from the mountain. Three days ago it had run and hadn't reminded me of anything. Hadn't warned
me either. Not out among the pines chopping kindling.

My axe chunked into that wood. Chunk, chunk. The sound echoed off the trees broken only by snorts the cold forced my nose to make. I paused and turned, stopped and stared.
My hand tightened, felt the wood's grain along the haft. Four paw marks marred the snow. A wolf's. The tracks shone in the cold sun. Huge, still. Cold as the air.
I followed them. Why will haunt my eternity. I will stand before the Lord, head bowed. Hear His damnation. I followed them, unaware of now's end.

The track became a puzzle I refused to understand. It dared me to. Four paw marks became two. Ice stabbed my heart and froze my soul. They had turned. Back toward
the cabin. I ran and plowed, plowed and ran. Screamed and warned. Only the door, banged by the wind against the wood house, answered.

The Trail

I never had trouble finding her. She always left a trail. Inside the door, shoes left where she had kicked them off. Ear rings, necklaces on the table by the sofa. The recliner
didn't escape. Dropped scarves, hurled sweaters, thrown tops. Often I'd pick them off the floor where she just let them fall. She'd greet me at the trail's end, arms outstretched,
her expression a mix of impatience and relief, annoyance and joy. It spoke without a word. "What took you so long?"

Light adored her face. Made it glow and gleam. Emerald eyes that penetrated through me, sparkled and danced. When she laughed, angels smiled. Sometimes dainty crumbs led to the
bedroom. Skirt, nylons, panties, bra. I never thought of her as my mate or my partner. She was my wizard. Oh, how her caress enchanted me. A look could bewitch me. We never made
love. We made magic. Her body melted against mine. Her limbs and hands became unbreakable bonds. Her tongue pierced my soul. Heat that ignited flames never burned or charred.
Around me the room, the world, the universe...vanished.

I can still feel her two arms entwined around mine. They tightened when the doctor entered, x-rays in hand.

I come home now. The key hesitates, slow to turn. I'd give my life to see her shoes, her jewelry, her clothes. Anything to pick them up. One more time.